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In 1968, Alcira Soust resided and worked on the UNAM campus. In the absence of a stable job, she lived on small tasks that were given by some professors of the
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (mainly translations of French), with the help of her friends, and through the drawings and poems that she
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At CREFAL, Soust worked with indigenous and peasant communities. At the conclusion of the course she wrote an essay on the importance of recreation entitled "Recreation in the structure of personality", which would be the first thesis published by CREFAL. After the course, Soust got an extension of
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Alcira Soust Scaffo was the youngest of three sisters in a middle class family. From an early age she excelled academically, managing to become a schoolteacher at 20. She obtained an interim assistantship at
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on the loudspeakers as a peaceful protest. The fear of being imprisoned led her to hide in a bathroom in the
Humanities Tower, where she remained for the 15 days that the occupation lasted.
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Bajter, Ignacio (2009). "Alcira Soust, la poeta de Bolaño en busca de la verdadera
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The university campus was invaded and occupied by the army on 18 September 1968. Some witnesses maintain that Soust helped students to escape and put verses of
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In the 1960s she settled in Mexico. She received a scholarship from the Center for
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in 1968, she remained hidden for 15 days in a bathroom at the university. This episode became a notable anecdote in the
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